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divided into many small parts: Its flowers 
are white, but not all of a whiteness, and 
stayed in knots, upon divers green stalks 
which rise from among the leaves. 
Place.| It is frequent in all pastures. 
Time.| It flowers late, even in the latter 
end of August. 
Government and virtues.| It is under the 
influence of Venus. An ointment of them 
cures wounds, and is most fit for such as 
have inflammations, it being an herb of 
Dame Venus; it stops the terms in women, 
being boiled in white wine, and the decoc- 
tion drank; as also the bloody flux; the 
ointment of it is not only good for green 
wounds, but also for ulcers and fistulas, 
especially such as abound with moisture. 
It stays the shedding of hair, the head being 
bathed with the decoction of it; inwardly 
taken it helps the retentive faculty of the 
stomach: it helps the gonorrhea in men, 
and the whites in women, and helps such as 
cannot hold their water; and the leaves 
chewed in the mouth eases the tooth-ache; 
and these virtues being put together, shew 
the herb to be drying and binding. Achilles 
is supposed to be the first that left the vir- 
tues of this herb to posterity, having 
learned them of his master Chiron, the Cen- 
taur; and certainly a very profitable herb 
it is in cramps, and therefore called Mili- 
taris. 
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DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING SYRUPS, CONSERVES, 
Sc. §e, 
Having in divers places of this Treatise 
Promised you the way of making Syrups, 
Conserves, Oils, Ointments, &c, of herbs, 
roots, flowers, &c. whereby you may have 
them ready for your use at such times when 
they cannot be had otherwise; I come now 
to perform what I promised, and you shall 
find me rather better than worse than my 
word. 
That this may be done methodically, I 
Shall divide my directions into two grand 
sections, and each section into several chap- 
ters, and then you shall see it look with 
Such a countenance as this is. 
SECTION I. 
Of gathering, drying, and keeping Simples, 
and their juices. 
cHaP.1, Of leaves of Herbs, §c. 
cHaP.u. Of Flowers. 
_ cHaP.im. Of Seeds. See 
cHap.v. Of Barks. 
cuap.vi. Of Juices. 
SECTION II. 
Of making and keeping Compounds, 
cHaP.I. Of distilled Waters. 
cHap.u. Of Syrups. 
cHap.t. Of Juleps. 
cHap.tv. Of Decoctions. 
cHapP.v. Of Oils. 
cHap.vi. Of Electuaries. 
cHap. vil, Of Conserves. 
cHaP. vi. Of Preserves. 
cHaP.1x. Of Lohochs. 
cHap.x. Of Ointments. 
cHap.xt. Of Plaisters.. 
cHap.xu. Of Poultices. 
cHap. xin. Of Troches. 
cHap. xiv. Of Pills. nee 
cHap.xv. The way of fitting Medi- — 
cines to one Dis- 
eases, 
Of all these in order. 
